My first experience with Taipei was on my family's Packard Bell 386SX computer my parents bought back in 1991. The PC must have been a showroom floor model because and it came with a little bit of demo software including the first Entertainment Pack. Because Windows 3 was such a spartan operating environment, I was grateful for the few additional games that were loaded existed. I played a fair amount of Taipei, beating each layout numerous times, but I've never kept track of which game numbers I've beaten. This was the very first mahjong matching game I ever played, and I had to read the in-game help document to understand the rules. I particularly like the flower and season tiles, because they're unique, the one of circles because it's so colorful, the one of bamboo (the bird), which I originally thought was a samurai warrior. In the end however, like solitaire, this game is little more than a time-waster.